European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine platoon Leader wet abet with Bible under aim alongside spec. 4 Whf Iam Bradley. Infantry platoon Leader ready willing and Abel Story and photo by Tony Nauroth a Furnberg bureaus a fast it Wade Abel leads men he s an in Landry platoon Leader in the 1st army div his Job is the Job Basic o the army to toughest Job there is. Say Trie soldiers mho follow him. Follow me1" it s the Batlle cry of the in Landry and Abel s Sucre is measured in i corns of How fast and How far in troop Marti behind him during the past week Abel spent one Day m his m 113 armoured personnel earner guarding a Iii Lap overlooking Neustadt the town of Crystal fado ios just 1d Miles from inc czechoslovakian Border. He commands a platoon of Lour tracks and. Mon Imp manily. 28 Mon. One Small piece sued on the Board of a War Garring Percise called Iron forge Ono Soldier out of 8,000 the Pool of ground he stood on cot a Well be the very plot he would stand on and possibly die on it Soviel tanks were to Crest that. In front of him for this reason division officials asked thai his specific unit not be Deni Ifield Abel was working on his Bat the Book a hard cover oversized volume with a red secret Label emblazoned on it. A adds to in each time he visits my area As he Calls in. A feta with maps it is a digest of where and How hell tight work War 111 if in starts hero. Kept in a Strongbox when it s not in his hands his Batlle Book is his Bible and if he loses in he s dead meal the More he knows about this plot of ground the greater his chances arc that he will succeed in defending m i d rather to  to said that when you be got momentum Houind you " to said an army a Tih momentum a so has an advantage he studies the terrain with a keen be searches inc ire finos and monitors the most Likely avenues of possible  approach doing i Best to defend thai s the Mission Sarto of his Ife his a Knop t an i i who of Ceil tha Hill Iho division commander s Mission would be to Stop idiom he would have to balance Iho Mission Arja Insl inc number of lives needed to accomplish if Mission is 1,000, minus the unknown Quantity of death  s Tough for a general to Swallow when Abel would receive his Small pan of the Mission that figure would be greatly reduced by its Impact would be drama locally enlarged ii would translate Inlo 28 minus perhaps two men but Iho Quantity at this level is known by name ii might to spec. 4 Terry Drako of Sabina Ohio and spec. ? studies the of cumin makes another notation in Jii j name Book and Cess Job to defend against the Terni to momentum of Duain saturday october 31, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 13